One way to think about their desire to obtain higher gas prices; they either have to add it as a tax(European model) or if it occurs naturally, they can use it as an excuse to takeover oil companies in this country(Communist model). Doesn't make any diff that rising oil prices primarily benefits not the companies but those controlling the source of the oil(Opec mostly).
“I no longer share that view.”
Lol. Share it with whom?
Poppong off about how you love higher and higher gas prices as the Energy Czar for Obama in an election year is really not a smart thing to do. Even the buffoons understand the implication of that as they scarpe together money to fill their tanks.
Chu’s actions prove he has not changed. He’s a Marxist.
And on to what? Dilithium crystals?
Oil, coal, natural gas cannot yet be replaced.
Of course not...after a "heated" call from his boss.
What an idiot!
Along with Nepoletano.
Along with Holder.
Along with Wassername Shultz.
Along with Jarret.
Along with Pennetta.
Along with Biden.
No wonder "O" is floundering with a "ship of fools" like this tagging along after him. Very sad for America.
THE ENTIRE ECONOMY RUNS ON ENERGY.
If you can cut domestic energy prices, everything gets cheaper. America develops and increases it's comparative advantage in goods and services. Jobs and opportunity increase.
If you increase domestic energy prices, you get the reverse affect. Obama is going for higher prices, fewer jobs and opportunity. Combine that with a horrendous debt load. Good luck America if this guy is re-elected.
“Gee Mr. Genie, would you mind crawling back into the bottle?”
He is a hypocrite and a liar.
Didn't he just affirm his 2008 view within the last couple of weeks before this latest 180 degree turnaround?
Yeah, another comment from the administration’s line of pisants: “we are ready to rule from day 1”
“Chu told Lee: “Of course we don’t want the price of gasoline to go up. We want it to go down.””
From now on, right up to election day, the various administration mouthpieces like Chu will be hiding their marxist agenda and reading straight from the daily talking points put out by Axelhead.
Axelhead knows they are in deep doo at this point.
Liberals never say the truth, they only say something that will advance their agenda. Like the taqiyya of Islam, they are even willing to take one step backwards in order to eventually take two steps forward at some other time.
High and higher prices for energy will mean a quick end to the Left’s ability to impose their socialist Utopia on the rest of us. So, a little give now on the issue of price allows them to keep advancing their agenda in other ways on other days.
The left wants everyone to ride horse-drawn public transit. Life will just be better when everything was organic and natural, and you will all be better people when you are forced to give up your consumptive ways and return to working the soil with your hands. This will cleanse you of your capitalist greed. This is exactly the path that lead the Khmer Rouge to empty the cities and force those who survived into the countryside to work on farms. It was an effort to cleanse people of all the things that kept them from becoming the perfect socialist man.
Question I would have loved to see:
“Secretary Chu, to help this committee understand your veracity, please explain, step by step, your thought process in you abandonment of your longstanding views?”
I was for high gas prices before I was against them. Hey, that line has worked before. Hasn’t it?
This, from Secretary Chu’s Wiki page, confirms what I thought all along:
“He taught himself tennis by reading a book in the eighth grade, and was a second-string substitute for the school team for three years. He also taught himself how to pole vault using bamboo poles obtained from the local carpet store.”
IOW, he is a maladjusted DORK who fancies himself capable when he is not. Otherwise, he’d have understood such tidbits are better left unmentioned.
They are in full-scale panic.
The polls are collapsing. They are running out of options.
Obama is preparing to do what he always does...throw his long-time loyal supporters under the bus when they become a hindrance to his election chances.
Hello, Keystone Pipeline.
Chu talked like an escaped mental patient.
I can’t believe this fool has a Cabinet position.
This is why Obama has to be defeated in November. His administration is thoroughly corrupt and anti-American, and must be removed by the election.
Yes, this is good. But a quick quiz, if you will.
Which Republican candidate has succeeded in putting Obama and Chu on the defensive so quickly? And re-framed the debate from “women’s contraceptive rights” to American energy security?
Well, that would be Newt Gingrich, the candidate with “so much baggage” that he could not beat Obama./sarc Yeah, right. We republicans are again listening to the wrong people.